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Published in: Can Europe Make It?Encouraging signs in Italy
Italy remains a laboratory of the far-right, with racism as its main fuel. But Afroitalians are beginning to...
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Published in: Can Europe Make It?At the open grave: dealing with the legacy of Franco’s terror in today’s Spain
“As I write this (September 15) the Spanish government has issued a draft bill: the Valle will undergo a process of...
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Published in: democraciaAbierta: OpinionThe Plebeian Populism of López Obrador
Economic inequality as the serpent’s egg.Español
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Published in: Can Europe Make It?French Republican hypocrisy and the long slow descent into reaction
Macron’s shift to the right appears to have been a long time coming. But recent events show how quickly a slide...
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Published in: Can Europe Make It?Open letter: a response from the '100' French scholars
"We want to reply to the open letter written by academics from mostly English-speaking universities that was...
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Published in: Can Europe Make It?The discreet charm of social media and the choices we don’t have
The curious co-existence on Netflix of 'Emily in Paris’ and 'The Social Dilemma’ reveals the choices that are not...
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Published in: 50.50These are the women of colour who took down Trump
States like Georgia don’t flip themselves. Meet some of the women whose grassroots organising enabled the Democratic victory.
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Published in: democraciaAbierta: OpinionA period of hope for Latin America begins with Biden & Harris
For the U.S., the Latin American agenda is not a priority. Still, Biden’s arrival at the White House signifies a...
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Published in: Can Europe Make It?Populism in the US election: an interview with John B. Judis
What are the key ideologies and actors which prompted Trump’s defeat? The acclaimed author and journalist shares his...
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Published in: democraciaAbiertaThe wonders and limitations of Trump's downfall
The pincer movement through which the 0.1% imposed its agenda since 2008 has been defeated. It won't mean much if...
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Published in: 50.50: Opinion‘The First Woman’: an excerpt
Mixing modern feminism and ancient folklore, ‘The First Woman’, by Jennifer Nansubuga Makumbi, tells the story of a...
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Published in: Can Europe Make It?Love letter from Buchenwald
What can the world learn from Buchenwald's audio memorial walk to commemorate the 75th anniversary of its liberation?
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Published in: democraciaAbiertaGina Reales: "In Chocó, Colombia, COVID-19 is a humanitarian crisis"
Gina Reales, a social leader from Quibdó (department of Chocó, Colombia), fights day in and day out to improve the...
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Published in: democraciaAbiertaLilia: preserving the Amazon river's fauna is preserving Planet Earth
For Lilia Isolina Java Tapayuri, protecting the pink dolphin is sacred. This is the tenth and last story in the...
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Published in: democraciaAbierta: OpinionFor Donald Trump, his defeat will be fake news
Trump threatened to deny his defeat and challenged the ballot box because it probably won't accommodate his desires....
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Published in: Home: OpinionTrump started a war against safe spaces, but then pledged to ‘Make America Safe Again’
Conservatives have a long history of advocating for safe spaces when it suits them and exploiting them when it doesn't.
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Published in: Home: OpinionThe US will never get a Vietnam veteran as president
Every president from 1952-1992 was a WWII veteran. But this year, yet another draft-dodger will win.
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Published in: Can Europe Make It?: OpinionFrance: the flea becoming the boss
The sole beneficiary is the far Right leader who helped turn laïcité from a fine democratic value into a...
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Published in: Can Europe Make It?Academic freedom in the context of France’s new approach to 'separatism'
From now on, academic freedom will be exercised within the limits of the values of the Republic. Or not.
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Published in: ourEconomyUS election podcast: ‘We want change, not Biden’
From race to a broken political system, the story of Louisville is in many ways the story of America.